Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) If a person wishes to remove human remains from a place of interment and re-inter those human remains at another location, the person must obtain an exhumation licence.
(2) An exhumation licence is required under subsection (1) whether or not the proposed re-interment is—
(a) within the public cemetery where the human remains are currently interred; or
(b) outside the public cemetery where the human remains are currently interred.
(3) This section does not apply to the removal or re-interment of cremated human remains or body parts by—
(a) a cemetery trust in a public cemetery for which it is responsible; or
(b) the holder of a right of interment in accordance with this Act.
S. 158A inserted by No. 42/2005 s. 7.